sorry for being a noob...

BananaBoatBob · Jul 3, 2010

but i just ran a speed test on my 4g in york pennsylvania with one bar and i had 342kb/s

i did not realize how fast it really was :eek:

even thought the upload speed for some reason drops to like 50 some

my 3g speeds average is around 150 with a similar upload speed

WOW am i too excited or is this incredible for a phone?

also my friend at work just texted me and claims his GayPhone4 is faster than mine we shall find out when i get there

Juanakaslim · Jul 3, 2010

kbs or kb/s?

Carl C · Jul 3, 2010

Show off

I'm lucky to get 100kb on my magic on 3G, 4G is the future!

tomemail · Jul 3, 2010

Mine is...2230 kbps and 467 kbps
I'm on 3g with 2-3 bars.

EarlyMon · Jul 3, 2010

Last I checked, bars do not count on a CDMA network like they do on AT&T.

I thought in our case that they were a measure of robustness only - and I'd suppose I'd expect a few lost/re-xmit packets when down to a single bar.

But I don't think the 3G antenna indicator is a speedometer, I don't think the signal strength indicator for wifi is a speedometer, and I'd guess I would not think the same thing for 4G.

Anyway - I may be totally wrong. Well, either that or maybe not.

OBTW&FWIW - kb/s = kbps.

Caloy · Jul 3, 2010

I'm here in Sugar Land right now and there is 4G service. Did a speed test and it's at 1640 kbps. The problem is the upload speed is only 120 kbps. I don't get 4G service at home. But 3G is fast enough and wifi is both faster and more efficient.

Sent using my HTC Evo 4G.

IOWA · Jul 5, 2010

EarlyMon said:
Last I checked, bars do not count on a CDMA network like they do on AT&T.

I thought in our case that they were a measure of robustness only - and I'd suppose I'd expect a few lost/re-xmit packets when down to a single bar.

But I don't think the 3G antenna indicator is a speedometer, I don't think the signal strength indicator for wifi is a speedometer, and I'd guess I would not think the same thing for 4G.

Anyway - I may be totally wrong. Well, either that or maybe not.

OBTW&FWIW - kb/s = kbps.

This is correct.

I think what he meant was KB/s =/= kb/s

EarlyMon · Jul 5, 2010

IOWA said:
I think what he meant was KB/s =/= kb/s

Yeah, strictly speaking, 1 kB/s is pretty close to 8 kb/s.

IOWA · Jul 5, 2010

EarlyMon said:
Yeah, strictly speaking, 1 kB/s is pretty close to 8 kb/s.

Yeah that extra 24bit/byte can get annoying!

Minjin · Jul 5, 2010

EarlyMon said:
Yeah, strictly speaking, 1 kB/s is pretty close to 8 kb/s.

1 kB/s is exactly equal to 8 kb/s.

Just as 1 KiB/s = 8 Kib/s.

sorry for being a noob...

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